CALLAN, Clair Armstrong, a Representative from Nebraska; born in Odell, Gage County, Nebr.,
March 29, 1920; attended the public schools; graduated from Peru State College;
during the Second World War served as an officer in the United States Navy on a
destroyer in the Pacific Theater, served on Odell Village Board, Odell School
Board, Gage County School Reorganization Board, Gage County Fair Board, Gage
County Extension Board, chairman, Governors Committee on State Government
Reorganization Board; chairman, Nebraska Power Review Board; engaged as a
farmer, stockman, and in the hardware and farm supply business; elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-ninth Congress (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1967);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966 and to
the Ninety-second Congress in 1970; deputy administrator of the Rural
Electrification Administration, 1967-1968; president, Allied Industries
International, Inc., and Agri-Tech in Nashville, Tenn.; died on May 28, 2005,
in Fairbury, Nebr.